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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Jonathan Lux" <mandy_john1985@msn.com>
Reply-To: jonathanlux_33@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:53:41 +0000
Subject: Re: Raise the funds and get back to me

Hello Justin,

Thanks for the quick respones to my email,i want you to know that there is a little problem with the account you are suppose to send the $75,000 to, the cause is that the account need to be updated.

You are required to send $5000 through Western Union Money Transfer to me to enable us update the bank account and by monday the account should be ready and then i will immediately provide you the bank account details so that you will have the remaining funds $70,000 wired into the account immediately.

Note that as soon as this is done your funds($25Million) will be processed and transfer to you. And i also want you to know that the $75,000 is the final payment you will made to secure the $25Million into your trust.

As soon as you let me know this is okay by you, i will send you the name and address you will need to send me the $5000 through Western Uniuon to me. and i want you to re-confirm your contact home address to me, I await to read from you today.

Thanks

 

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